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Carpathian nouns have three [[w:Grammatical number|numbers]]: '''singular''' (for one item), '''dual''' (for two items) and '''plural''' (for three or more items). The dual number generally has a more limited use, than the other two, but it remains productive in the standard language. | Carpathian nouns have three [[w:Grammatical number|numbers]]: '''singular''' (for one item), '''dual''' (for two items) and '''plural''' (for three or more items). The dual number generally has a more limited use, than the other two, but it remains productive in the standard language. | ||
Carpathian is unique among its neighbouring languages, in the way it distinguishes four genders: masculine, feminine, common and neuter. Many originally masculine nouns in PIE had become common in modern Carpathian. The neuter gender is mostly associated with inanimate or diminutive nouns, while the common gender refers to abstract nouns and animate nouns with no clear gender distinction. The gender of a noun is clear from its nominative case ending: ''-as'', ''-us'' and (rarely) ''-ū'' for masculine, ''-ā'', ''-ū'' and ''-ī'' for feminine, ''-is'' for common and ''-a'', ''-i'' and ''-ēn'' for neuter. The "ū"-stem can be either masculine (consonant "n"-declension) or feminine (true "ū"-declension), the distinction is visible in the oblique cases. | Carpathian is unique among its neighbouring languages, in the way it distinguishes four [[w:Grammatical_gender#Gender_contrasts|genders]]: masculine, feminine, common and neuter. Many originally masculine nouns in PIE had become common in modern Carpathian. The neuter gender is mostly associated with inanimate or diminutive nouns, while the common gender refers to abstract nouns and animate nouns with no clear gender distinction. The gender of a noun is clear from its nominative case ending: ''-as'', ''-us'' and (rarely) ''-ū'' for masculine, ''-ā'', ''-ū'' and ''-ī'' for feminine, ''-is'' for common and ''-a'', ''-i'' and ''-ēn'' for neuter. The "ū"-stem can be either masculine (consonant "n"-declension) or feminine (true "ū"-declension), the distinction is visible in the oblique cases. | ||
===Ablaut=== | ===Ablaut=== | ||
''Main article: [[Carpathian ablaut]]'' | ''Main article: [[Carpathian ablaut]]'' | ||